Hadi Lotfi explores how AI is moving marketing beyond experimentation and individual tools toward connected workflows, stronger operating models and smarter decision-making that delivers real business impact.

Independent creative agency RPM and research specialist, Canvas 8, interviewed senior marketers from FMCG, hospitality, tech and entertainment sectors, to understand how effectively brand systems today are keeping pace with business operating models.

DEPT®'s Global Market Sentiment Pulse, produced in partnership with The Marketing Society, draws on a survey of 3,000 consumers and the perspectives of senior marketing leaders from Barclays, British Airways, Diageo, Tesco and more to reveal what people actually want from brands in an age of instability.

This session explored what it takes to earn attention, build trust and leave a lasting impression. The strongest communicators know exactly what they want people to feel and do, then make every detail work towards that outcome. The message was clear: credibility must be earned, ideas must be interesting and being different matters more than simply being better. Because safe may be comfortable, but it is rarely memorable.

Lex Bradshaw-Zanger on why the principles of physics offer a surprisingly useful framework for understanding how brands grow, customers choose and marketing works.

The Marketing Society’s Global Leadership Mentoring Programme played a key role in helping Worldwide Cancer Research's Laura Brady achieve her goal of becoming a CEO.

South Korean consumers, fed up of data breaches and fake reviews are demanding tangible "proof" before trusting hyped products, pushing brands to build verification and authenticity directly into the shopping experience.

Drawing on decades in television, Maz Farrelly shared practical lessons on capturing attention, building memorable personal and brand identities, and embracing boldness over mediocrity. She encouraged marketers to use AI as a tool rather than a substitute for creativity, arguing that the brands and people who stand out are those willing to be genuinely different.

Marketers from luxury, FMCG, finance, B2B and agencies gathered for an open discussion on what it takes to engage Gen Z in today's fragmented media landscape. The conversation highlighted the growing importance of authenticity, niche communities and regional cultural influence, alongside practical lessons from brands successfully building trust with younger audiences.

Maz Farrelly challenged marketers to think like television producers by making every pitch, profile and interaction clear, distinctive and impossible to ignore. The session showed that standing out requires more than polished messaging or AI-generated content: it means knowing what you want, communicating a memorable point of difference and deliberately giving people a reason to keep listening.

Ammunition's Renaye Edwards says the friction between marketers and CFOs stems from mismatched language and suggests seven ways to overcome this to think like a growth operator who partners with, rather than fights finance.

The Marketing Society is delighted to introduce a new strategic partnership between The Marketing Society and the MiniMBA - created

Agentic AI makes it possible for insight functions to surface existing knowledge, work across fragmented data and drive action directly freeing up human expertise for where it matters says Accenture Song's Matt Addison.

Julian Boulding's interim Cannes Review asks whether our industry's rush for scale has cost us what matters most. His verdict from the Croisette: Relationship Capital is the new competitive advantage.

Highlights and insights from Cannes Lions Wrapped Up with Paul Kemp-Robertson, David Tiltman and Chloe Markowicz of LIONS. The discussions centred on the pulling apart of what is uniquely human and what is uniquely machine, creators as long-term brand builders, and the growing consumer appetite for friction.

Marketing has a habit of looking backwards. Ask most marketers when the industry was at its best and they’ll point

The final days of Cannes Lions 2026 brought the week's biggest ideas together: AI as infrastructure, people as the point, and conviction as the quality that separates those who follow change from those who lead it. Our Cannes Correspondents report from the Croisette one last time.

In My Humble Opinion is our podcast series with our friends at Publicis Groupe UK, giving marketing leaders a safe

Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity 2026 opened with a question that refused to go away all week: as AI becomes more capable, what becomes more valuable about being human? Our Cannes Correspondents report on different sessions, stages and conversations and bringing the best of it back to our Members.

Some people will tell you Cannes Lions hasn’t moved fast enough. That may still be true on parts of the Croisette, or in the bar at the Carlton, but it wasn’t true in my classroom. Lex Bradshaw-Zanger shares his insight from Brand Marketer Academy.

In Part 4 of the Red Pill series humari’s Joe Hildebrand explores what’s really blocking marketing teams from getting real value from AI - and it isn’t always fear.